Jack K. Gelman

Jack Gelman is a Managing Director at Gelman & Associates, LLC.

Mr. Gelman has business experience as an Andersen Partner, company  President & CEO and marketing executive. His business transformation  consulting practice provides customized assistance to owners of  privately held companies for:

• navigating the business safely through periods of economic uncertainty and turmoil
• implementing actionable plans for new revenue generation, cost management and organization restructuring
• identification and adoption of Best Business Practices
• creating Advisory Boards and extracting value from them
• preparing for alternative future events including merger,  acquisition, public offering, outright sale and next generation  succession.

Jack also provides advisory services to senior executives on business  and marketing strategy and sales force effectiveness.  From time to  time he accepts line management assignments from his clients including serving as President and CEO of the renewable energy company Alternity  Wind Power, LLC.

Early experience at Procter & Gamble and General Mills enabled  Jack to gain a keen understanding of marketing, sales, new product  development and new business commercialization. Later he turned around  and profitably grew operating units at Cross Pen, Nashua, Beiersdorf and  Rustoleum.

Jack earned his BA in Economics from Princeton and served in the U.S.  Navy as both a Naval Aviator and Assistant Professor of Naval Science.  Following military service he attended Harvard Business School where he  earned an MBA with Honors.  He  has offices in Williamsburg VA and Westport CT. 

Stephanie Gelman co-founded Gelman &  Associates and directs the firm's New Products Development and Business  Regeneration Practice. She is a creative problem solver who partners  with clients to identify and leverage their brands' unique strengths for  go-to-market opportunities.

Stephanie has a track record of detecting new business trends early.  She translates these trends into high impact new products for consumers.  Recognized as an innovative new products and new business marketer,  Stephanie employs an ingenious approach and proprietary toolkit to  analyze complex issues and to address business challenges. This has led  to breakthrough results which have stood the test of time.

Corporate experience with multi-functional management  responsibilities at Procter & Gamble, Kraft and Gillette give  Stephanie a distinctive consulting point of view. Her unique 360° "arts  & science" approach reflects experience as a marketer, new product  developer, research manager, sales executive and scientist. She brings  this diverse experience and her intuitive skills as critical components  for developing new products successes.

Perhaps most notable among Stephanie's many business accomplishments  is the re-positioning and turn-around she accomplished for Kraft while  charged with running its $600 million Natural Cheese business.

In addition to undertaking traditional consulting assignments,  Stephanie has also served in an Interim Chief Marketing Officer capacity  for the Armorall Products Corporation. She owns two Procter &  Gamble patents.

Stephanie earned her BS in Chemistry from The University of Virginia  at Mary Washington College and studied medicinal chemistry while doing  cancer research at the graduate level. Before entering the business  world she taught science courses for the Department of Defense on  Okinawa. Stephanie has offices in Williamsburg VA.